TripAdvisor Reviews Hanting Express Guilin Railway Station

Travel Blogs from Guilin

After the overnight train from Hong Kong we spent a night in a great hostel in Guilin, which was sat on the shores of a lovely river crossed with old chinese zig-zag brigades, before heading on to our main destination, the ‘Dragon’s Backbone’ rice terraces. We arrived at DaZai village at the bottom of the terraces, and tried our best to follow the directions from our hostel to reach our destination near the top of the mountain. ...

... Because when you speak to the people who dress just like at home they can't understand you, and you can't understand them either. Instead of you wanting to take their photograph for being exotic they ask to take yours. The shops that look similar to the ones at home do not sell the products you were expecting to find inside (a so-called supermarket sold nothing but liquor and sweets, for example).

... us to one of his favorite restaurants. We had a combined lunch/dinner and had pizza (Lili loved it), fish, tofu with scallions, fried green vegetables and a dessert with powdered sugar on the outside and sweet bean paste on the inside. After the long walk and dusty roads, we were looking forward to a hot shower back at our favorite spot, The Guilin Park Hotel. Lili and I opted for a night ...

... can't imagine they are selling much ice cream at that price. We checked into our hotel, which I quickly dubbed "The Hotel California", as it seemed we were the only customers, the elevator didn't really work, and while we had a portable heater in the room, the instructions were in Chinese and we couldn't get it to work. It was really chilly that night, so we bundled up in layers and used several comforters, and of course, we each had a snuggle partner to stay ...

... 15+ for a pot of tea. Dragon Well tea is the most popular and highest selling green tea in China, and Hanzhou is where they grow and process it, so I think the price is marked up a lot for the tourists. We finally ended up buying a small tin of the green tea leaves in a shop so that we could make it on our own. It was good, but I don’t have enough background to say if it is better than other green teas. To me green tea tastes the same every time ...